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MARTHA. "...Now, that little town is a blot on the Church's record the size...

Author: By Gerald Burns, | Title: THE PROPHET | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them. But Kesey's lunatics and his story are full of gaiety too-including a wild ward party complete with wine, women and song. As the Chief says admiringly of Randle P. McMurphy: "He won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life in a Loony Bin | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Perhaps Mr. Nehru would realize some day that Portugal was never a threat to India's security but just a blot on the family escutcheon. The true enemy lurks in the Himalayas, and perhaps closer still in the person of Mr. V. K. Menon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 29, 1961 | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...word denotes monkey to children. Soon children were asked to recognize the "two little eyes" in moon-with logical results. Since letters meant nothing, moon turned into boon, loon or soon. Now, say critics. U.S. children are mired in a whole lexicon of reading errors-bolt for blot, bouquet for banquet, cottage for college, and scores of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Ivan Reads | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...current show, it is his enviable duty to plant long-lasting kisses on the ingenue, Bonnie Scott, but he recently turned on her with a four-letter snarl and added: "Blot your lipstick or I'll smear it all over your face." And at one final curtain, as the cast soaked up the downpour of applause, Morse turned and remarked to one and all (including 60-year old Co-Star Rudy Vallee): "Well, thev liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: I Believe in You | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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